My friend's unique flower
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (343824)
Rockingham, Australia
January 20, 2025 12:15am CST
If I had to design a flower that was unique and different, I couldn’t have come with something like what you see in the photo.
It’s a bromeliad – Tillandsia guatemalensis – to be exact, and it’s blooming in my friend’s garden. It’s basically only two dimensional. I’ll put a photo of the side view in a comment.
Isn’t it beautiful? Having said that, it also looks a bit bizarre.
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@DaddyEvil (139073)
• United States
15h
Yes, it's pretty but I turned out to be allergic to the pollen from that plant. One of my nieces had one and asked me to babysit it for her while she was moving... I had it in my house for two weeks. It was shedding pollen and some got on me and burned my skin. (My skin blistered where the pollen touched me.) I wasn't happy about it.
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@DaddyEvil (139073)
• United States
11h
@JudyEv I have a large clump of pampas grass at the outside corner of our front porch. I have to avoid it when it's dropping pollen. It can burn my skin, too, but I love that plant....
@JudyEv (343824)
• Rockingham, Australia
12h
To me, it is very unusual. I hadn't seen one like it before.
@Beestring (14798)
• Hong Kong
15h
That's a pretty flower. It looks very different from other flowers.
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